Nazi disruption and exile eroded the productivity of orthodox Marxist émigrés.
Evidence
Clearly drossmann’s most productive period had been in the decade before 1933, which culminated with his treatise on the collapse of capitalism. The disruption of European intellectual life brought about by the Nazis helped prevent it from receiving the attention it might have earned at a less turbulent time. Thereafter, the dislocation of Grossmann’s personal life added to the waning of his productivity. In America Grossmann led a lonely and isolated existence, having left a wife and children behind in Europe. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 479
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Stalin’s purges destroyed the Soviet theoretical tradition of Marxism.; The Institute abandoned orthodox Marxist ideology critique by the forties — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 779; Stalinism and Nazism together destroyed the avant-garde — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 252 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Fascism shattered a school of historians whose members dispersed into exile or regime service
#expands(0.80) - Stalin’s purges destroyed the Soviet theoretical tradition of Marxism.
#corroborates(0.78) - The Institute abandoned orthodox Marxist ideology critique by the forties
#corroborates(0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 779 - Stalinism and Nazism together destroyed the avant-garde
#expands(0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 252 - Fragmented identity makes classical Marxist alienation obsolete.
#responds-to(0.70) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 362